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    Talk About Good Grades
    Talk About Good Grades
    Talk About Good Grades
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    Talk About Good Grades

    By David Seed

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    An older gentleman meets a future rocket pilot and tell him the secret to the good grades needed to reach his goal.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestern Grebe Publishing
    Release dateAug 29, 2012
    ISBN9781476088075
    Talk About Good Grades
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    David Seed

    ###About the author:David Seed was born August 15, 1931 in Minot, North Dakota. In his eleventh year the family moved to Dunsmuir, California where he graduated high school, believing himself to be a writer. In the fall of 1949 he started at the University of California at Berkeley and did his best to learn what he could of life. He managed to graduate in the spring of 1956 and continued to follow his calling, experiencing a chaotic life as both participant and observer. He is now an old man writing books in Oregon.

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      Book preview

      Talk About Good Grades - David Seed

      From an early age, my children were exposed to my humorous ideas on the subject of education along with my serious expectation that they get good grades and go to college. I tried to give them the benefit of my experience by telling them of my struggles to get good grades, and as a result I was inspired to write this little book.

      I'm not sure what influence I had on their success as students; however, my oldest son Huckleberry went to Caltech, my daughter Caraway went to Harvard, my second son Cotton went to MIT as did his younger brother Leif. My youngest child Shoshannah went to Carrol College Nursing School and graduated with honors.

      Talk About Good Grades

      by David Seed

      Smashwords Edition

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      Published by on Smashwords by

      Western Grebe Publishing

      Copyright 2000 by David Seed

      (Originally self published as a handmade book by the author)

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      [B]y being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys.... I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence -- which is a noble thing. --Winston Churchhill

      Table of Contents

      Dedication

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Dedication

      To Linda Seed who bore them, fed them, and loved them.

      CHAPTER ONE

      On the way home from the Post Office, I met a moon pilot. He was working on his jump shot.

      Well, I didn't find out he was a moon pilot right away. That sort of thing takes time. At first I thought he looked like any other kid playing basketball, but I reminded myself of the backwards rule. The more people look the same, the more they are different.

      Whenever I think of the backwards rule, I like to check it out.

      I stopped by the fence and watched. The kid dribbled the ball, made his moves, and missed the shot. He grabbed the rebound and broke for the near court. He repeated the drill. This time he sank the shot and walked over to pick up the ball.

      When he straightened up, I beckoned to him.

      Pardon me.

      What?

      I want to talk to you.

      What is it, Mister? I have to work on my jump shot. Some guys are coming by for a game.

      I want to tell you some secrets for getting good grades.

      What are you, some kind of weirdo?

      I'm a writer. I'm working on a book called Secrets for Getting Good Grades, and I want to know what you think.

      Maybe you should talk to a teacher. Mrs. Johnson might still be around.

      What's your name?

      Roger, why?

      Well, Roger, I'm not writing this book for teachers. I'm writing this book for guys like you, and I know something about getting good grades.

      I still think you should talk to somebody else. Besides, anybody knows how to get good grades.

      Oh, they do? How's that?

      You be quiet in class, you do all the homework, and you get it in on time. It's hard work, that's all.

      Did anyone ever tell you that playing basketball is hard work?

      Basketball’s a game. It's fun.

      I see. Getting good grades is hard work, but playing basketball is fun.

      That's it, Mister. I think you got it.

      Roger, a physiologist would tell you that playing basketball is hard work. Running and jumping require strong muscular contractions. Fast moves and sudden stops strain ligaments and tendons. The game pushes the cardiovascular system to the limit. Playing basketball is as hard as digging ditches. In fact, playing basketball would be good training for a ditch digger.

      I'm not going to dig ditches.

      That would be hard work, wouldn't it?

      Yeah, nobody wants to dig ditches.

      What if you owned a mining claim? What if bedrock was three feet down and you knew there were gold nuggets down there? What if all you had to do was dig a ditch across your claim to strike gold? Would you dig that ditch?

      That's different. Anybody would dig that ditch.

      I suppose so, and I suppose digging that ditch wouldn't seem like hard work, because everybody knows digging for gold is fun.

      Yeah.

      No, I think digging for gold is hard work.

      Mister, I wish you'd make up your mind.

      Well, what's fun about digging for gold?

      Are you kidding? Finding gold has to be fun.

      Oh, now I understand. If you find the gold, you know the digging was fun. If you don't find the gold, you know the digging was hard work.

      "Wait a minute, Mister. You said I knew the gold

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